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The Diary of Modern Cinderella
When the happy, everyday life suddenly turns into an inescapable, cruel fate
Set in Hakone, a town surrounded by mountains in Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, the story revolves around the female protagonist Risa Akagi, a first-year high schooler who loves arts. She lives with her father, her stepmother, Riko, and her stepsister, Chiyu. Her father married Riko a few years after her mother's death.
Unlike in the fairy tale, Riko loves Risa just like her own daughter while Chiyu treats her like a precious little sister.
Risa's life and happiness come to a grinding halt when Riko suddenly becomes abusive towards both of them. Moreover, it happens at the worst time when their father, who is a police officer, is away on a covert mission in Nagasaki.
Feeling trapped in the endless abusive cycle, their cruel fate turns for the worst when Riko decides to kill both of them.
Will Risa and Chiyu able to escape death and put their cruel fate to end?
The Diary of Modern Cinderella is a psychological suspense seinen light novel. If you're looking for a novel that features a female protagonist and has a dark storyline mixed with romantic scenes in between, then you will certainly enjoy reading The Diary of Modern Cinderella.
Buy The Diary of Modern Cinderella today to find out if Risa and Chiyu are able to turn the table and end their cruel fate once and for all.
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The Evil Shepherd
A novel of English life of a melodramatic character, so fascinating and so stirring that the most hardened reader can hardly fail to receive a series of thrills.
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0,88 €
The League of Rogues Box Set 4
Fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series and Johanna Lindsey Malory series will love this wild and adventurous Regency romance series full of passion and intrigue!Never Kiss a Scot–The League of Rogues Book 10A Scottish earl steals a kiss in a library at midnight from the little sister of his English enemy resulting in a mad dash to Gretna Green to marry over the anvil before her overprotective brother can intervene.The Earl of Kent–The League of Rogues Book 11A young woman finds a second chance at love with an earl who’s pride and body have been wounded. Can her love and the spirit of Christmas heal his broken soul?Never Tempt a Scot–The League of Rogues Book 12A young woman is mistaken for her scheming little sister and kidnapped by a handsome, vengeful Scottish rogue in this tantalizing enemies-to-lovers romance.
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The Worlds of Wonder: Experience design for curious people
Experience Design, the enterprise of creating immersive worlds around people seems to be the biggest star in todays marketing firmament. No other medium is more promising in connecting people to stories, places and ideas. What is the story behind this movement? How did it evolve and what is the best way of navigating in this sector? In this revealing book, two pioneers reconstruct the past 25 years, showing how constructed experience came to be central in our lives. They arrive at an original conclusion: immersive experience design is not just the latest new media extension. It is related to our way of being, of finding our way in life. When used in the right way, it serves as an instrument for massive, multi agent change. The Art of Wonder not only gives a thorough analysis of the psychological foundations of Experience Design and its rise into cultural and commercial realms, it also provides practical tips for how to build engaging worlds for your audiences. Larded with the light hearted history of their own XD-firm, one gets more than a feel for this way of work. From museums to theme parks and from A-brands to governments, Experience Design (XD) is paramount in today’s creative industry. Imagination is becoming the ultimate canvas for connecting people to brands, stories, and places. It will be of interest to all students and professionals active in experience design, including their bosses and clients. Since the book contains a first person account of discovering what XD is, it will function as a companion for designers and senior managers alike, since a growing segment of todays’ bigger organizations launches experiential marketing initiatives, posing new questions to their Marketing & Communication departments.
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A bosszúálló - The Avenger
Francis Elmer has vanished, and all that is found is a typed note signed 'The Head Hunter'. Elmer's niece Adele Leamington is an extra at the Knebworth Film Corporation. The actress Stella Mendoza keeps the whole set waiting to shoot, in the best Hollywood tradition, but her starring role is given to Adele. Surprised by Mike Brixan as she is learning her lines, Adele drops the typed script. The 'v' letters are blurred and the 'g' is indistinct. Mike turns white...
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Decide now! Make the Right Choice under Stress
What this book can do for you: You support certified climate protection projects, receive compact information and checklists from experts (overview and press reviews in the book preview) as well as advice proven in practice, which leads step by step to success - also thanks to add-on.
Because it is already difficult to make good decisions when you have time to think and weigh up. But how do you make the right decision spontaneously and under stress and time pressure? How do you get all the necessary information in the shortest possible time to avoid wrong decisions? And how can you control intuitive decision-making processes in such a way that they are actually optimal and fact-based? This book gives answers to all questions and helps to make noticeably better decisions.
We give you the best possible help on the topics of career, finance, management, personnel work and life assistance. For this purpose, we gather in each book the best experts in their field as authors - detailed biographies in the book - , who give a comprehensive overview of the topic and additionally offer you success planner workbooks in printed form.
Our guidebooks are aimed primarily at beginners. Readers who are looking for more in-depth information can get it for free as an add-on with individual content as desired. This concept is made possible by a particularly efficient, innovative digital process.
The publisher is also involved in numerous, well-documented charitable projects, e.g. on climate protection, and supports the quality of neural machine learning and international understanding through its translation from German into English.
Editor Simone Janson is chairwoman, publisher, and best-selling author. She was also one of the 20 most important German bloggers and columnist of renowned media - more about her in Wikipedia.
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8,09 €
The Ministry of Common Sense How to Eliminate Bureaucratic Red Tape, Bad Excuses
Where's the common sense? During the COVID-19 pandemic, the TSA is allowing passengers to board planes with unlimited amounts of hand sanitizer, while maintaining its 3.4-ounce limit on all other liquids. You need a chainsaw to pry open your new pair of headphones from their package. Your eighth Zoom meeting of the day keeps freezing, and if you hear "No, wait; no, you go first" again, you will implode. But first you have to sit through an endless PowerPoint presentation that everyone claims they've read - no one has - that could have been summarized in one page.
What has happened to common sense? And how can we get it back? Companies, it seems, have become so entangled in their own internal issues and beset by reams of invisible red tape (and frozen screens) that they've lost sight of their purpose and culture. Inevitably, we pay the price.
New York Times best-selling author Martin Lindstrom combines numerous real-life examples of corporate common sense gone wrong with his own ingenious plan for restoring logic - and sanity - to the companies and people who need it most. A must-read for today's executives, managers, and office workers, The Ministry of Common Sense is funny, entertaining, and immensely practical.
Vzhůru, tesaři, do výše střechu zvedněte!/Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters!
Dvě psychologicky laděné novely s filozofickým podtextem o sourozencích Glassových. O Seymourovi, nejstarším ze sourozenců, vypráví Buddy, který přijíždí na bratrovu svatbu, jež se nekoná. Druhá novela je improvizovaný esej o smyslu poezie, o psaní a osobnosti spisovatele, který je prokládán a ilustrován historkami a názory rodiny Glassových.
The Top 10 Longest-Living Dog Breeds
This eBook examines the 10 longest-living dog breeds in the world. It provides a direct analysis of each dog's physical characteristics, personality, and life expectancy.
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Fingerprint Activities Under the Sea
Bursting with fun fingerprinting ideas, this colourful activity book comes with its own inkpad of seven bright colours. Decorate the underwater scenes with fish, turtles, submarines, mermaids and much more. There are simple instructions showing how to fingerprint each picture and the book has a spiral binding so that it lies flat.
The Art of Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Pronikněte do propracovaného světa úspěšné hry Kingdom Come: Deliverance v knize The Art of Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Kniha přináší exkluzivní pohled do zákulisí vývoje největšího českého herního projektu všech dob. Skrze nespočet náčrtků, vývojových konceptů a krásných screenshotů se čtenář dozví, jak vznikal autentický herní svět roku 1403. Vše doplňují zasvěcené komentáře tvůrců hry.
Pokud vás zajímá, jak vznikaly jednotlivé lokace ve hře, navrhoval se systém oblečení či kreslily mapy, kniha The Art of Kingdom Come: Deliverance vám na vše odpoví. Součástí jsou i exkluzivní rozhovory se samotnými tvůrci, kteří poodhalí procesy, jenž vedly k vydání oceňované hry českého studia Warhorse.
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Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970-1983
For more than half a century,Annie Leibovitzhas been taking culture-defining photographs. Her portraits of politicians, performers, athletes, businesspeople, and royalty make up agallery of our time, imprinted on our collective consciousness by both the singularity of their subjects and Leibovitz’s inimitable style.
The catalogue to an installation at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, Annie Leibovitz: The Early Years, 1970–1983returns to Leibovitz’s origins. It begins with a moment of artistic revelation: the spontaneous shot that made Leibovitz think she could transition from painting to photography as her area of study at the San Francisco Art Institute. The meticulously and personally curated collection, including contact sheets and Polaroids, provides a vivid document both of Leibovitz’s development as a young artistand of a pivotal era.
Leibovitz’s reportage-like photo stories for Rolling Stone, which she began working for when she was still a student, record such heady political, cultural, and counter-cultural developments as the Vietnam War protests, the launch of Apollo 17, the presidential campaign of 1972, Richard Nixon’s resignationin 1974, and the Rolling Stones on tourin 1975. Then, as now, Leibovitz won the trust of the prominent and famous, and the book’s pages are animated by many familiar faces, among them Muhammad Ali, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ken Kesey, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Didion, andDebbie Harry, as well as John Lennonand Yoko Ono, captured in their now iconic embrace just hours before Lennon was assassinated.
Throughout the book, the portraits and reportage are linked to images of cars, driving, and even a series on California highway patrolmen. In many ways, it’s a celebration of life on the road—the frenetic rhythms, the chance encounters, the meditative opportunities. And with its rich archival aspects, it is also a tribute to an earlier time and a young photographer enmeshed in a culture that was itself in transition.
The Easy Way to Write Horror That Sells
Good horror is sophisticated. More and more writers, like Joe Hill and Jack Ketchum, are winding up in the literary section of your local bookshop or library. No longer is horror marginalized. It's increasingly seen as respectable and justifiably good writing.
So, believe me, it's more than possible to make a very good living from writing horror and dark fantasy!
Do you want success as a horror writer? And get to grips with a genre that will benefit all of your writing.
Here’s what the book covers:
* How to build suspense* How to create believable characters* How to come up with original and compelling ideas* How to create convincing monsters and psychological enemies* How to sustain a series of stories / books / movies* And much more!
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14,90 €
The Last Children of Tokyo
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe promted Japan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sickness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshiro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive.
As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?
Aiden Shaw's Penis and Other Stories of Censorship From Around the World
What does it mean to be silenced, to be censored? Or perhaps, more importantly, what does it mean to break free?
This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates high quality fiction and non-fiction short story writing from authors all over the world. Bringing together 12 exciting and emerging international voices, this collection explores the censoring of the past, present, future, the self, the state, and the effects of censorship on everyday life. As a provocation, this book will provide readers with a diverse, relatable and surprising look at censorship and what it means to be silenced - or, perhaps more importantly, what it means to break free.
The Crow War - Turning Point
My name is Syra and this is how I feel. This is how they wanted me to feel. The City of New York, the year 2211. The world is divided into crows, people and mutants. Arkan, the Creator, who is responsible for release of the crow DNA into the air, the Father of the Three Clans, has fallen unconscious. Somebody has stolen a dangerous vial he had been working on. Who is behind it and who did it? Syra is confused and upset because of the situation that has arisen. Moreover, her step-father Levant was unexpectedly murdered. That’s when she decides to leave the City and revenge Levant’s death. However, she doesn't know where to start and all of a sudden, nothing makes sense anymore. And not only to her but neither to Syra's best friend Darrek who decided to accompany her on her quest for revenge. They both solve mysterious circumstances behind Levant's death and the stolen vial. The situation gets even more complicated when Trivian, Arkan's step-son and Syra's childhood friend, who had suddenly disappeared from her life years ago, re-appears. Will Syra be able to control her feelings for Trivian or will she push them away to focus on her revenge? This is only one of the decisions Syra will have to make. Time is against her and she has to decide fast because the person who has stolen the dangerous vial can use it anytime.
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The Hand of Ethelberta
At the beginning of the book, we are told that Ethelberta was raised in humble circumstances but, through her work as a governess, married well at the age of eighteen. Her husband died two weeks after the wedding and, now twenty-one, Ethelberta lives with her mother-in-law, Lady Petherwin. In the three years that have elapsed since the deaths of both her husband and father-in-law, Ethelberta has been treated to foreign travel and further privilege by her benefactress, but restricted from seeing her poor family.The events of the story concern Ethelberta's career as a famous poetess and storyteller as she struggles to support her family and conceal her secret -- that her father is a butler. Beautiful, clever, and rational, she easily attracts four very persistent suitors (Mr Julian, Mr Neigh, Mr Ladywell, and Lord Mountclere), but is reluctant to give her much-coveted hand.
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A gyalog - The Pawn
Gabriel Miller tornádóként söpört végig az életemen. Váratlanul, mindent elpusztított. Kíméletlen megtorlással állt bosszút az apámon, aki egy kórházi ágyon végezte, nincstelenül. Miatta a főiskolát is abbahagytam, hogy gondoskodjak róla, hiszen már csak ő maradt nekem. A családi házat is csak egy módon menthettem meg. Csupán egyetlen értékem maradt, a szüzességem, amit egy titkos aukción megvásároltak. Gabriel Miller mindenhol ott van. Mélyebb játszmát űz, mint gondolnám. Minden lépéssel közelebb kerülök hozzá, az érzékisége rabul ejt, miközben minden újabb titokkal darabokra tépi a lelkem. A végső játszma után biztos, hogy csak egyikőnk marad talpon.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as the mayor—finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological novel about a man whose own flaws combine with fate to cause his ruin.
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0,88 €